Artist: Tom Hunter
Commissioned by the Serpentine Gallery.
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"This is a magical film. It weaves the memories of people who grew up in East London and have lived on the estate since it opened into a silvery thread of meaning illuminated by dramatisations of their experiences filmed in the aged, but dignified Woodberry Down buildings and public spaces.”
Jonathan Jones, The Guardian
Article | review by Jonathan Jones, The Guardian
MEMORY SEQUENCES FILMED BY BEVIS BOWDEN
Artist: Melanie Manchot
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Commissioned by SRG SSR / Swiss Broadcasting Corporation.
Six two minute programmes were commissioned to accompany the daily coverage of the World Cup Ski Jumping Championships in Engelberg, Switzerland as an 'intervention' to the daily national TV coverage of the event.
The films were shot and edited in a single day and then aired on consecutive days of the championships.
This selection of programmes gives an insight into the preparations of the inrun and the cutting of the ski tracks, the team who look after the ski jump hill, the pre-jump preparations of the ski jumpers and Abbot Christian draws parallels between the act of jumping and higher interventions.
FILMED AND EDITED BY BEVIS BOWDEN
Other films made with Melanie Manchot: Stephen (in part) | Flotilla | Cornered Star | Out of Bounds | The Gift | Twelve | Tracer | Dance (All Night) Paris | Walk (Square)
Artist: Melanie Manchot
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The post-industrial city of Marl in Germany carries the scars of the economic depression that followed the fall of the mining industry. City squares are filled with public sculptures and bear witness of the past growth of the town. In Cornered Star, a horse stands alone on the main city square.
Early morning lights progressively illuminate the brutalist concrete architecture. The horse is almost static but in spite of his relative fixity, it remains the only source of life present in this deserted urban environment. The work looks at the archetypal forms of equestrian public sculptures and more broadly questions the use, codes and authority of public space artwork.
Cornered Star formed part of Open Ended Now at MAC VAL, Paris.
FILMED BY BEVIS BOWDEN
Other films made with Melanie Manchot: Stephen (in part) | Flotilla | Out of Bounds | The Gift | Twelve | Tracer | Dance (All Night) Paris | Walk (Square) | LEAP
Artist: Ruth Maclennan
Commissioned and produced by Film and Video Umbrella, London.
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Filmed among the desert expanses of Kazakhstan the film introduces three iconic characters: a historian, a prospector and an archaeologist; each of them methodically journeying across this apparently empty but symbolically charged terrain.
The prospector was played by the actor George Drennan.
Music by Kuat Shildebayev.
FILMED AND EDITED BY BEVIS BOWDEN
Artist: Shona Illingworth
Lesions in the Landscape was shortlisted for the 2016 Jarman Award.
Commissioned by the Wellcome Trust.
Three channel synchronised installation
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Lesions in the Landscape is a powerful multi-screen installation, exploring the impact of amnesia and the erasure of individual and cultural memory. The film reveals the devastating effects of amnesia on one woman and the striking parallels with the sudden evacuation of the inhabitants of St. Kilda in the North Atlantic in 1930. It examines the profound effect and wider implications of memory loss on identity, space and the capacity to imagine the future.
Lesions in the Landscape was filmed on Hirta, the main island of the St. Kilda archipelago, and in the seas around the island of Boreray and Stac Lee - the highest sea stack in Britain.
Lesions in the Landscape was first screened at FACT, Liverpool and CGP Gallery, London UNSW Galleries Sydney, Australia.
FILMED BY BEVIS BOWDEN
Other films made with Shona Illingworth: 216 Westbound | Balnakiel
Artist: Melanie Manchot
Commissioned by Great North Run Culture.
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Tracer features ten North East parkour runners, or traceurs, making their way along the course of the Bupa Great North Run.
"Of all the artists in this show, Baudelaire would surely have preferred the German-born photographer and film-maker Melanie Manchot. Manchot goes straight for the transient and contingent with a three-screen installation that moves through the modern city like a high-speed flaneur. Set in different parts of Newcastle, this epic film follows a group of free runners practising parkour, running through streets, along ledges, across bridges and roofs – tracing the lineaments of the city with their feet.
Manchot has been shortlisted for this year’s Derek Jarman award for art films and it’s no surprise. This study of mankind’s movement through the modern city – as the crow flies, and with absolute freedom – mesmerises.”
Laura Cummings, The Guardian
Article | review by Laura Cumming, The Guardian
Go behind the scenes on Melanie Manchot's film Tracer in this short making of film.
FILMED BY BEVIS BOWDEN
Other films made with Melanie Manchot: Stephen (in part) | Flotilla | Cornered Star | Out of Bounds | The Gift | Twelve | Dance (All Night) Paris | Walk (Square) | LEAP
Artist: Ori Gersht
Commissioned by The Round House and Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Three channel synchronised installation
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Offering confronts the glamorous and treacherous world of bullfighting, its dazzling spectacle and often-gruesome outcomes.
Originally screened at the Round House, London as part of Ron Arad’s Curtain Call. A circular screen became the viewers own corrida.
Article | Ron Arad’s Curtain Call, Moving Image Art
FILMED AND EDITED BY BEVIS BOWDEN
Other films made with Ori Gersht: History Reflecting | Evaders | The Forest
Artist: Ori Gersht
Two channel synchronised installation
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Evaders explores the mountainous path of the Lister Route, used by the Jewish writer and philosopher, Walter Benjamin on his ill fated journey in 1940 to escape Nazi-occupied France.
Those who undertook to cross the Pyrenees into Spain were dubbed evaders. Tragically Walter Benjamin was refused entry into Spain on arriving in Portbou. This thwarted his plans to ultimately travel to the United States. Fearing repatriation to Nazi hands he took his own life.
The film’s protagonist was played by the actor Clive Russell.
Evaders was part of But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Article | Ori Gersht discusses journeys, borders and Evaders
FILMED BY BEVIS BOWDEN
Other films made with Ori Gersht: History Reflecting | Offering | The Forest
Artist: Ergin Çavuşoğlu
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Six channel synchronised installation
Shuttling backwards and forwards between two contrasting points of origin, between fast-track, first world Europe and a place at its outermost edges, Point of Departure is a vivid portrait of modernity that, like the airport itself, is a platform for intercultural insight and exchange.
Point of Departure was shot at Stansted airport in the UK and at Trabzon airport on the Black Sea, Turkey.
FILMED AND EDITED BY BEVIS BOWDEN
Other films made with Ergin Çavuşoğlu: Crystal & Flame
Artist: Melanie Manchot
Out of Bounds was shortlisted for the 2017 Jarman Award.
Two channel installation
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Out of Bounds was filmed in the high Alpine Valley of Engleberg and follows two different teams of mountain workers, people who day in and day out perform the same tasks to make the mountain safe and pleasurable – they are the hidden labour that allows the mountain industry to function. One is a team that goes up early in the mornings after a fresh snowfall to detonate controlled avalanches, and the second is a group of piste-bully drivers, flattening the mountain as if with a huge iron.
FILMED BY BEVIS BOWDEN
Other films made with Melanie Manchot: Stephen (in part) | Flotilla | Cornered Star | The Gift | Twelve | Tracer | Dance (All Night) Paris | Walk (Square) | LEAP
Artist: Susan Stockwell
Commissioned by the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam.
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The film explores the sculpture Territory Dress and juxtaposes it with archival film of past seafaring imagery. It is as if the figure is remembering her history and making imaginary connections. Concerned with claiming female territory, mapping the body and exploring memories, traces and stories of colonial and social histories both the film and sculpture are about our colonial past and its contemporary significance.
Music by Rafael Anton Irisarri.
Article | Elephant: The British Artist Tackling the Long, Dark Shadow of Colonialism
Territory Dress is in the Tropenmuseum’s permanent exhibition Our Colonial Inheritance.
FILMED AND EDITED BY BEVIS BOWDEN
Other films made with Susan Stockwell: Rumpelstiltskin
Artist: Melanie Manchot
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Commissioned by Portraits of Recovery and the Wellcome Trust.
Twelve explores the intimate stories, rituals, repetitions and ruptures of lives spent in addiction and recovery.
Inspired by the visual acuity of renowned contemporary filmmakers sequences are shot as continuous takes, referencing iconic scenes from the films of Michael Haneke, Gus Van Sant, Bela Tarr and Chantal Akerman – providing the framework for reflections on remembered incidents and states of mind. Twelve employs a diversity of cinematic technique and tropes adapted to reveal the complex and non-linear nature of recovery.
Twelve formed part of People Places Propositions at Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne.
FILMED BY BEVIS BOWDEN
Other films made with Melanie Manchot: Stephen (in part) | Flotilla | Cornered Star | Out of Bounds | The Gift | Tracer | Dance (All Night) Paris | Walk (Square) | LEAP
Directed by Ed Dalton
Produced by TILT Design, London.
Filmed in the Wadi Rum, Jordan.
Climber was one of four idents made as part of a BBC Knowledge Channel rebrand.
FILMED BY BEVIS BOWDEN
Directed by Richard Shaw
Produced by Unity House for Sky Arts
The series is presented by art expert Kate Bryan and profiles exhibitions of every size - from marque shows at internationally renowned venues to smaller exhibitions in beautiful, intimate gallery spaces.
Inside Art celebrates the UK arts scene, talks to curator, artists and art lovers, and explores the stories behind the artwork.
FILMED BY BEVIS BOWDEN
Art expert Kate Bryan explores an exhibition that explores the relationship between club culture and design, traversing the globe and spanning the 1960s to the present day.
Art expert Kate Bryan explores the exhibition Masterpieces From Buckingham Palace in The Queens Gallery, with works by Titian, Rembrandt and more.
Art expert Kate Bryan looks at a unique body of British and Irish art dedicated to self-portraiture, consisting of the very best work of the twentieth-century and more contemporary pieces.
Art expert Kate Bryan presents a behind the scenes look at a major exhibition of Linda McCartney's iconic photography at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.
Commissioned by the Barbican.
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STRAVINSKY’S PETRUSHKA
Go Beyond the Concert Hall promotional films highlighted the Barbican's innovative ongoing classical music programme and was part of the Barbican’s rebranding programme.
The excerpt shows Stravinsky’s Petrushka performed by the genre-bending production company Giants Are Small with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
FILMED AND EDITED BY BEVIS BOWDEN
